CNN surveyed the scene and not surprisingly found that younger college students, especially those with high-speed connections, felt more comfortable with e-books than did older students. Elderly policymakers, please note. It’s the material that counts, not how it’s delivered.
Allen Renear, one of the Open eBook standard-setters, told CNN that electronic textbooks would gain appeal when they come with improved audio and vidoe capabilities. True, true, true.
And their capabilities for displaying plain text will get better, too.
Time for library systems to plan ahead?
(Found via LIS News.)
